Introduction to mythology
Subtitle: contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
By: Eva M. Thury, Margaret K. Devinney.
Contributors: Devinney, Margaret Klopfle, 1941-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195332940
Subjects: Mythology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to studying myth; title: What is myth?; title: Ways of understanding myth; title: Myths of creation and destruction; title: Part 2a: Myths of creation; title: Greek creation stories; title: Ovid's creation story; title: Biblical creation stories; title: Enuma Elish : a mesopotamian creation story; title: The prose Edda's creation stories; title: Native American creation stories from the Southwestern United States; title: African creation stories; title: Nu kwa : a Chinese creation goddess; title: Part 2b: Myths of destruction; title: Ovid's flood story; title: Biblical flood stories; title: Ragnarok; title: Heroes and tricksters; title: The hero with a thousand faces : the book by Joseph Campbell, discussed by David Whomsley; title: The epic of Gilgamesh; title: A Levi-straussian analysis of the epic of Gilgamesh; title: The Ramayana; title: Heroes in the prose Edda-Snorri Sturleson; title: Oedipus the king / Sophocles; title: The structural study of myth /  Claude Levi-Ctrauss; title: Raven : a native American trickster; title: The Mwindo epic; title: African and African-American trickster stories; title: Prometheus : the Greek trickster; title: Looking back at heroes : the different versions of a myth; title: Ritual and myth; title: Ritual-victor turner; title: Demeter and persephone : the homeric hymn to demeter; title: Isis and Osiris; title: Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas; title: The rituals of Northern Europe / H.R. Ellis Davidson; title: Heracles and Dionysus; title: Myths and dreams; title: Man and his symbols / C.G. Jung; title: How to perform a jungian analysis of a myth or fairytale; title: Folktale and myth; title: The morphology of the folktale / Vladimir Propp; title: A proppian analysis of the Wizard of Oz; title: Household tales / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm; title: "Cupid and psyche" / Apuleius; title: Using multiple analyses to highlight different aspects of the same tale; title: Myth in a contemporary context; title: A study of the construction of the Daniel Boone myth; title: Stagecoach and firefly : science fiction and the journey into the unknown; title: Harry Potter : a rankian take on the hero of hogwarts; title: Myth and literature; title: Mythological themes in poetry; title: Mythological themes in native American literature; title: Mythological themes in modern narrative.